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  volume 05  |  issue 04  |  sep 08

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  This issue features the work of physicist and photographer David Kirkby, whose photographs of ordinary objects aim to give people insights into physics. Here, a Koosh ball—a jiggly, squishy rubber toy—represents dark energy, the invisible force that is accelerating the expansion of the universe.

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